With a new boom of appreciation for long-playing vinyl in full swing, our cozy dark corner of Amoeba Music Hollywood where the Goth /Industrial section lies is seeing lots of great titles come through. We’ve hand-picked some recent wax new releases and reissues and are featuring them in our section this month, so crank up your turntable for some of our highlighted dark wonders. SturmperchtSchattenlieder (Ahnstern)
3-sided double-LP in gatefold-cover with etched vinyl on the 4th side. The masters of Pagan Folk are back with their new album Schattenlieder - eine kleine Nachtmusik für Waldteufel und Berggeister. The album features 20 diverse and unique songs full of alpine mysticism, heathen legends and tales about strange fairies and pagan rites. Schattenlieder entrains you into deep forests, arcane mountains and dark chasms and guides you to hidden places in the depth of the central European forests, where hunters meet strange creatures from dusk til dawn. The album varies between gnarled songs about creepy fairies, catchy folk hymns and dark songs dealing with alpine myths, forest tales and hunter sagas. Schattenlieder is the perfect soundtrack for misty autumn evenings as well as for dark winter nights. The album features a large variety of instruments and sounds -- obscure, strange, folky, psychedelic, but always original and weird, in Sturmpercht's very unique way. Schattenlieder is completely unpredictable -- each track a standalone, but contributing to the overall ambiance of this new benchmark within the Pagan Folk genre. Not for everyone, but a truly bizarre and wonderful release!

Ruby ThroatThe Ventriloquist (The Lovers' Will)

The deluxe double vinyl LP edition of the classic Folk-Noir recording The Ventriloquist by Ruby Throat. Limited to 300 hand-numbered copies in a reverse-board gatefold sleeve and including a full colour insert, this is the first time this gorgeous recording– originally self-released on CD in 2007– has been issued on vinyl by Los Angeles-based label The Lovers' Will Records & Press! Ruby Throat is a bewitching duo from London, UK and is compromised of vocalist KatieJane Garside (Daisy Chainsaw, Queenadreena) and guitarist Chris Wittingham. Garside’s voice is much like The Ventriloquist’s subject matter – riding on a dark line between the ethereal and the visceral. The album is made up of psychosexual musings, spectral visions, stark murder balladry and other transgressive tales delicately surrounded by the Psychedelic dream-wrap and pastoral strumming of Wittingham. It also holds a high spot on our previously-posted list of the 20 Best Dark Music Albums of The '00's. Recommended if you like PJ Harvey, Current 93, Mazzy Star, and WIll Oldham.

Baby DeeA Book Of Songs For Anne Marie (Drag City)

After seeing an overwhelming response to Safe Inside The Day in February 2008, the peerless Baby Dee (a 57-year-old transgendered musician and artist from Ohio) returns with A Book Of Songs For Anne Marie. What was overwhelming about the response was the instant reaction to the purity of expression in her music. That dizzying sense of self is again an essential feature of this new music. While the last album was lit with the production fire of Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney producing, A Book Of Songs For Anne Marie glows softly with the calming presence of Maxim Moston (arranger of some standing and part of Antony And The Johnsons' touring band). In essence, this album is a prequel to Safe Inside The Day. The songs here were released in a different set of recordings and in a limited-edition book form (150 copies!) on David Tibet's Durtro label back in 2004. For most listeners, this is its first outing.

AllerseelenCruor

The first CD-album by Allerseelen from 1993 in a brilliantly remastered version on highest-quality double-vinyl, with additional material! Fascinating organic Ritual-Industrial music about the blood-rituals of the Mithras cult.

AllerseelenSturmlieder

Re-release of the sold out third CD, containing 6 brand new bonus tracks! Completely remastered and re-edited for this vinyl edition. The quite excellent track, “Wir tragen ein Licht,” is dedicated to John Balance (of Coil), who died on 11.13.04; the original CD has been completely remastered and re-edited for this vinyl edition.

Upcoming NEW Vinyl Releases

Current 93/Andrew LilesLike Swallowing Eclipses

Box Set (Dirter)

For the first time on vinyl the complete highly acclaimed Andrew Liles remixes of the first five classic Current 93 albums! Andrew Liles has re-imagined Nature Unveiled, Dogs Blood Rising, In Menstrual Night, Dawn and Live at Bar Maldoror. Also exclusive to this set is a sixth LP, Haunt Invocation (Apadno) which is a remixed version of Faustand A Special Plan. These influential albums by Current 93 are regarded by many as groundbreaking and innovative; building upon this Andrew Liles has re-dreamed and re-imagined these pieces with the flare and vision that he is renowned and respected for. All the records in this 6 LP set come in individual covers and a beautiful spot varnished box and are adorned with astounding artwork by David Tibet and photographs by Simona Dalla Valle. Available early June.

Cold CaveLife Magazine Remixes (Matador)

On June 8, Matador will release the second single from Cold Cave’s Love Comes Close LP, “Life Magazine” as a limited vinyl 12″. Features a rare remix from Arthur Baker and a KILLER remix by Cold Cave's own Dominick Fernow under his noise-moniker Prurient.